Sailing Tip of the Week: Green Shopping Bags to the rescue



4:38 PM Fri 16 Jul 2010 GMT
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Do you have one of those top loading deep freezes that reach down into the bowels of the boat so far you can hardly reach the bottom? Or risk falling in headfirst when you try? Or maybe the yacht you are just about to charter is like that? (warning: many are.) Well here is yet another use for the ubiquitous Green Shopping Bag. The problem is, you buy provisions at the start of any trip. You load them carefully into the top loading freezer with the best intentions of using everything. Through out the voyage, what with the rocking and ...


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by Grant Headifen




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